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... the food is place to place. There were a lot of pork products in Tuscany (they can hunt wild boar there), there was limoncello and pesto everywhere you went, and an abundance of seafood in Cinque Terre (for obvious reasons), and Piemonte was just filled with veal and cheese. Honestly, even though we were only there two nights I was starting to get sick of the Piemonte-style dining - it was just too heavy and rich to keep ...

... br> We decided to go tartufo hunting with Marco and his two truffle dogs . Rocco ,a white lab, and a puppy, Dora a poodleX, who was in training !! We just loved it. Traipsing through the oak forest, picking red and white cherries straight off trees and watching the dogs do their "job" tails wagging. It was black truffle season. "We" dug up 3 truffles. Well Rocco, Dora and Marco did !! 2 fairly big ones, worth quite a ...

... is home to the Holy Shroud , the supposed burial cloth of JC. We found out that the original is never on display and only for certain very special occasions . GUESS WHAT ? ..... They found out we were coming and the REAL shroud was on display (oh slight detail, the Pope was also visiting in same week ) Although not on our "to do" list , or of the faith ,we signed up for a visit , and found ourselves immersed in the Basilica of St John the Baptist. There were ...

So nothing much to report as the flight was early. The only exciting thing that happened this morning was being take to the airport by an Italian who only spoke Italian and French and me finding out he also had a Benelli motorcycle so we ended up talking in French about italian motorcycles, although he did waive the 30€ taxi fare because I owned a ...